MB Civic

National Insecurity
The blame game…

By Wayne Williams and Brad Parker

We Americans are simple people who seek clarity on matters of national importance. So, here it is, The Issue of National Importance: the Executive branch of the Federal government is in charge of all security agencies and all military forces in the United States and thereby responsible for all security breaches allowed by the government.

It follows that the Executive Branch, aka the Cheney/Bush Administration, failed to stop the attacks of 9/11 and failure to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice for these crimes. They are responsible not only for the lies that assisted them in creating the false premise for invading Iraq but responsible for the massive failure to plan for the aftermath of the invasion that has brought us to where we are today – a quagmire.

This bears repeating: all of the national security failures of the last seven years, domestic and foreign, are the primary responsibility of the Republican Executive Branch, not the Legislative Branch of government. Any future attacks will be the responsibility of this White House. To be fair, we should add that the previous Republican Congress does shoulder significant blame for abdicating their role as a co-equal branch of government, allowing the monumental profiteering and mounting failures to continue unchecked. Most distressing though is this current Democratic controlled Congress, which deserves special condemnation for failing to stand firm, instead acting with the excuse that the House and Senate votes are not there – a favored capitulation ploy of the Clinton DLC. In any case, the executive still runs the “security” show.

Instead of making us more secure, we are being prepared by the White House for another attack.  Our fear is induced. We see daily “fear” reports on our national news. Talking heads constantly remind us that we have to fear terrorists but we don’t have to sacrifice anything; no higher taxes, no shortages of goods or services – not like in other wars. It’s guns and butter forever! Keep shopping or the terrorists win. That’s the Republican feed ala Karl Rove.

The current Democratic leaders are in a catatonic state.

The Democratic feed is: don’t do anything and then when we’re attacked the Republicans will be blamed. DLC Blue Dog Dems and their consultant class apparatchiks have been paralyzed by the thought of another attack – thus their cowardice at standing up to the lunatic White House. After all, their political careers are on the line and that’s more important to them than all the deaths in the desert.

Republicans have run this nation for seven years.  Everything they have accomplished or failed to do is 100% their responsibility.  Taken further, anything that may happen (terrorist attacks – war with Iran) or continue to happen; failure in Iraq, Afghanistan, economic collapse, loss of the middle class, global environmental collapse… EVERYTHING rest on them. The failure to openly acknowledge this truth and respond appropriately clearly falls at the feet of the Democrats.

For our part, we say enough is enough. It’s time for the Democrats to go on the Public Relations offensive and replace the “fear” message with a “clear” message: if America wants to survive we must repudiate the war-mongering Republicans and elect a Democrat as President. If the Democrats want to thrive they must act now and with moral clarity not career ambitions.

Democratic leaders must make it crystal clear to the American electorate that the security failures of this new century are Republican failures. Any new security failures or blunders will also be Republican in nature because, with their actions, they have created more terrorists not less. Clearly the responsibility for the continuing paucity of “Homeland Security” and the growing “national Insecurity” is the fault of the Cheney/Bush administration and the previous Republican Congress.
As a final note we repeat that far too many Democrats, led by the DLC, have capitulated to the Republican malfeasance. Therefore, by not acting to stop these failures, they become accomplices in these crimes. In particular, Hillary Clinton’s inability to choose Peace over War and the current Democratic leader’s complicity in this rogue executive’s plundering of the blood and treasure of the nation has not gone unnoticed.
 
Accountability and a day of reckoning come for us all. When the elected officials that took part in this deception go to sleep at night, we hope they are visited by the ghosts of all those who didn’t come home from Iraq, of all those who perished on 9/11 and all those who are yet to die because of these elected officials craven careerist arguments and legislation.
 
Clear Enough!

Memo to the current Democratic leaders: Search your souls Democrats, have some principles, find your conviction and act now. Democrats in Congress must only provide funds for the orderly withdrawal from Iraq and never authorize war with Iran.  Impeach this White House that brought America this continuing “Insecurity”, stop the madness of Iraq and show us you can lead… or get out of the way!!!